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Margaretha prior to the wedding of her niece Princess Madeleine on 8 June 2013
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Born |
Haga Palace, Solna, Sweden |
31 October 1934 ||||
Spouse | John Ambler (m. 1964; d. 2008) |
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Issue | Baroness Sybilla von Dincklage Charles Edward Ambler James Patrick Ambler |
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House | Bernadotte | ||||
Father | Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten | ||||
Mother | Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
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Margaretha Désirée Victoria |
Swedish royal family |
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Extended royal family
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Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
Marianne Princess Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, (Margaretha Désirée Victoria; born 31 October 1934) is a Swedish princess, the eldest sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and also first cousin of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
Margaretha was born on the 31st of October 1934 at Haga Palace in Haga Park, as the first child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten and his wife Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; Paternal granddaughter of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his late wife Princess Margaret of Connaught; Maternal granddaughter of Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein; she was born during the reign of her paternal great-grandfather King Gustav V of Sweden.
Although the eldest child, as a female, she was never heir to the throne according to the Swedish constitution current at the time. She was educated privately at the Haga Palace and then at the Stockholm dressmaking school, Märthaskolan (Martha School).